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The NAACP Legal Defense Fund has said it will push for a civil rights case against George Zimmerman, who was acquitted in the fatal shooting of black teen Trayvon Martin.

The ripples from the acquittal of George Zimmerman continued to spread far from Sanford over the weekend. Sunday night, nearly 200 people gathered in…

As the not-guilty verdict set in, protesters took to the streets and thinkers asked the big questions.

During the National Veterans Wheelchair Games, participants have been showing off their athletic prowess at venues across Tampa Bay: Weight-lifting at…

It's the middle of turtle nesting season, as adult turtles are coming ashore to lay their eggs. But Sarasota and Manatee beaches are seeing a high number…

In his first public comments since a jury acquitted George Zimmerman of all charges, Attorney General Eric Holder did not announce any new federal action on the case.

NPR's Russell Lewis got quite a view from the beach Monday as a hammerhead cruised among swimmers. Check the picture he snapped.

Florida school grades will drop by no more than a single letter grade this year after the State Board of Education approved temporary changes to the…

Also: David Carr on why Barnes & Noble is good for Amazon; The Onionwonders whether J.K. Rowling is a pseudonym for Newt Gingrich.

While onchocerciasis, or “river blindness,” is virtually non-existent in the United States, the parasitic disease affects around 18 million people…

After being found unconscious, Michael Boatwright awakened to insist that his name is Johan Ek. And he couldn't speak English. Investigators pieced together some of his background and now a sister has talked about him. "He's always been just a wanderer," she says.

Developers have addressed a few concerns surrounding a 36-story apartment tower they’re proposing next door to Tampa’s Straz Center for the Performing…

Hillsborough County hosted its first in a series of public forums yesterday discussing mass transportation in an effort to gauge residents' perspectives.A…

Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, former classmates of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's at the University of Massachusetts, are accused of throwing out a laptop and other items that could link Tsarnaev to the bombings.

She cycled on average 60 to 70 miles a day for two months. Battled dogs, heat, rain storms, ticks, a few crashes and a gas leak in her support…

Too many physician surgery offices in Florida are “filthy” and have poorly trained staff, putting patients at risk, health inspectors say. In some…

The death of 18-year-old Israel Hernandez-Llach is being condemned by artists and criminal justice activists nationwide. The Miami Beach officer who used the stun gun is on paid leave.

Miami police say Derek Medina has been charged with first-degree murder. The message, and a "gruesome photo" of a woman's body, were on Facebook for more than five hours Thursday. The social media site removed them later in the day.

There may be a way for 1 million below-poverty-level uninsured Floridians to gain access to health coverage, even though the state legislature voted…

It's not often that the news media is shocked by a story about its own business.Journalists talk shop - a lot.There is no shortage of speculation about…

Last month State Board of Education members turned on Florida's school grading system.The board was being asked to voted on two temporary changes which…

Two 2016 presidential horse race stories posit that former Gov. Jeb Bush’s stock is down following the recent resignation of Education Commissioner Tony…

The state of Florida is suing Georgia over its increased consumption of water that is limiting flow to the Apalachicola River.Gov. Rick Scott said today…

DNA testing on the two killers profiled in the book "In Cold Blood" does not link them to a quadruple homicide Florida more than 50 years ago, ending…

Violinist and conductor Joshua Bell is going to be joining Lance Bass and a Shark Tank judge in Atlantic City. (And one of the country's foremost classical music critics is a preliminary rounds judge.) Is there a classical music/beauty pageant axis we just didn't know about?